poncette
\pɔ̃.sɛt\
The verdict
“poncette” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit sachet plein de charbon que l'on emploie avec le poncis ou poncif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poncette · poncette · French
poncette · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poncette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ̃.sɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « poncette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
poncette is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔ̃.sɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petit sachet plein de charbon que l'on emploie avec le poncis ou poncif.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for poncette, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is poncette, spelled P-O-N-C-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Petit sachet plein de charbon que l'on emploie avec le poncis ou poncif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how poncette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Merci cath, avez-vous une adresse précise de l'endroit où je peut trouver la machine à piquer. j'ai trouvé la poudre et la poncette au salon sur le stand de l'école de dentelle du PUY .
Le second procédé consiste à tamponner le poncif dont les lignes ont été trouées par une pointe fine en acier, avec un tampon, dit poncette, rempli de poudre jaune, rouge, verte ou noire, selon les cas.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.